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Background: about protein Almost every activity inside human body utilizes proteins. Protein is categorized as a type of macronutrient. Macronutrient is defined as one of the nutrients able to provide energy. For most people, providing energy is protein’s least significant role in the human body since body will prioritize the energy provision by metabolizing fats and carbohydrates. Protein is regularly spared from energy provision for its unique functions. Its components, the amino acids,...

Last month, I attended the Biomedical Research Academy at the University of Pennsylvania. There, I listened to a lecture that really stuck with me: The RNA World. The RNA World theory accounts for the most fundamental procedure in all life: the central dogma, or the process of transcribing DNA to RNA that is translated into protein. The theory suggests that machinery involved in the central dogma grew out of an RNA World–a world where RNA acted both as the genetic storage material and the...

Nobel Prizes, as stipulated in Alfred Nobel’s will, are decided and awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences (for Chemistry) and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (for Medicine). Chemistry prizes are dedicated for those “who made the most important chemical discovery or improvement” and medicine prizes are awarded to those “who made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine”. While connections between public health and medicine prizes can be very clearly...